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H. A. HAYDEN.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIG. I918.

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15,121. A PatentedSept. 2,1919.

H. A. HAYDEN.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I6. 1918.

1 ,3 1 5, 1 2 1 Patented Sept; 2, 1919'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT o cE.

riENEY A. HAYDEN, 0E wEs EiELn, NEW JEEsEY, AssIeNoE o HAYDEN INvENTIuNsCORPORATION, OF wEsTEIELn, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

CLEANING Iii/ELEMENT Specification of was resent. Patented Sept. 2,

Application fiid Ma is, 19ft. Serial Nd. 234,902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, IIENRY A. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Westfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GleaningImplements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cleaning lmple ments. p p

The prime object of the invention is to provide a scrubbing implement,preferably employing a scrubbing brush of the famlliar type and ofelongated form, so arranged that the scrubbing implement includes i ascrubbing brush, a readily attachable and detachable handle therefor,and coacting parts, carried by the brush and the handle; these co-actingparts being so designed and arranged, and thehandle being solong,

that a worker, standing, may with great convenience and heavy pressureapply the Work-contacting elements, as the bristles of the brush, to thefloor or other surface to be scrubbed, and also that with the handledetached, the parts permanently carried by the scrub brush will notinterfere with use of the scrub brush when grasped directly in the hand,in the usual Way, aswiththe worker on hands and knees. An importantobject of theinvention is to provide a co-acting handle and brush partsof very simple and inexpensive construction, and yet of greatconvenience of adjustment and of rigidity and security of connectionduring operation of the scrubbing implement by the worker standing.

Another object of the invention, especially where the scrub brush is ofthe elongated form above referred to,-isto provide an arrangementwhereby the handle, preferably upwardly directed at an obtuse angle tothe plane of the backing of the brush, may with equal ease andconvenience be reversed in position on the brush, toequalize Wear on thebrush bristles and prolong the life of the implement. Another object ofthe invention vide handle and brush parts, for mounting and dismountingthe brush as above explained, so designed and arranged that the brushpart includes a single bent sheet metal member of rectangular form, andthe handle part includes a single bent wire metalmemis to proeither openend thereof.

metal member. 1 p e e The invention will be clearly understood fromthefollowing description, when taken in connection with the accompanyingdraW- ings, illustrating practical embodiments of the invention, inwhich drawings,

Figure 1 is aside elevation of an embodibe r for co-acting ade uate withthe sheet ment of the cleaning implement;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the parts shown in Fig.1; e

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing another embodiment and theone at.

present preferred;

Fig; 5 is a side elevation of theparts shown in Fig. 43; and v a Fig. 6is a transverse section taken on *the line 6 60f Fig. 5

Thescrub briish 4.- which may be advantageously used is of the familiarform, having an elongated backing with tapered ends as a clearly shownin the drawing. The bristles are indicated at 5. e e

Straddling the backing of the brush at its middle, is abent sheet metalmember fi, so formed as to provide terminal in-bentportions 7 for takingunder the sides ofthe backing, and to provide a longitudinal, pocket 8,of rectangular cross section, open at opposite ends. In order the moresecurely to hold this member in place, the same is provided withtriangular teeth 10 stamped in from the material of the neinher, whichteeth are driven into the material, as Wood, of which the backing isformed, at its sides.

Attwo points equally spaced from the centralpoint ofthe top leaf ll ofthe member,

there are provided two transverse apertures 12 andl3 these aperturesbeing alined longitudinally of the brush;

Below the apertures 12 and 13], are recesses 12 and 13 in the top of thebacking.

A bent wire member is provided, of

riathe'r hibvy stock, is bent in a single plane to provide a 100 114,and larger loop 15 merging into theqloop 14:, and including therebetWeen stop-lengthsl5 arranged to" be transverse to thebrushf when the loop14 is seated the pocket 8, as shown in 2, after bemg advanced into thepocket from It should be understood that when theloop 14 is seated inthe pocket 8, following the insertion ofthe loop into the pocket throughthe right hand open end of the pocket, the aperture 12 and recess 12 arein vertical alinementwith the space sur-= rounded by the free end of theloop 14, and that when the loop is seated in the pocket followinginsertion of the loop into the pocket through the left-hand open end ofthe pocket, the aperture 13 and recess 13 are in vertical alinement withthe space surrounded by the free end of the loop 14.

In order to lock the loop 14 fixedly and, securely in place in thepocket 8, irrespective of, whether the loop is thus seated following itsinsertion into the pocket through the left hand or right hand end of thepocket, a bent wire member, of a lighter stock than the main bent wiremember, which includes the loops 14 and 15, is provided; this lightermemberhaving two angularly disposed portions, a terminal locking portion16 and a shank portion 17. The shank portion prefera'bly terminates intwo eyes 18, so that the. member may be conveniently, permanently butadjustably attached to the main bent wire member." Such attachmentisobtained in the present instance by providing the ring 19. It will beunderstood, of course, that the. locking member, however constructed,mayor may not be permanently connected to another part of the implement,although it is preferable not to connect such locking member to thebrush or the member 6, since then it might interfere with convenience ofuse of the brush when grasped directly in thehand and used by the workerwith the worker on hands and knees.

The terminal lengths of the main bent 'Wire member beyond the largerloop 15 therein are bent upwardly and placed side by side to form ashank ofi'set at an obtuse angle from the plane of the loops 14 and 15.This shank is secured into the lower end of a long woo-den handle 20,surrounded by a ferrule 21.

Irrespective of whether the loop 14 is seated in the pocket 8, followingits insertion into the pocket through the left hand or the right handend of the pocket, the locking portion 16 of the locking member isalways disposed for convenient passage through the aperture 12 or 13 andthe loop 14 into the recess 12' or 1 3. When thus adjusted, and

especially when the two reversely looped lengths which form such lockingportions 16 'are'slightly, resiliently divergent away from the top ofthe locking portion, it has been found that no amountof hard usage ofthe brush by means of the handle 20 is sufficient to jar loose thelocking member. Since the lockingmember stays thus in place, the mainbent wire member may not have its: loop 14 withdrawn from the pocket 8and he stop lengths 16 bear against the adjacent end of the pocket 8 andhold the main bent wire member engaged with the sheet metal member 6tightly, securely, and without lost motion or the possibility ofshifting, rocking or rattling.

Referring to Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the salient features of the embodimentshown, and wherein such embodiment differs from that of Figs. 1, 2 and3, are the provision of a bent-wire link 22 in place of the bent-wiremember 1617l8, and the provision of a sheet metal member 23 in place ofthe sheet metal member 6. v

The bent-wire member carried by the handle is the same as in Figs. 1, 2and 3, as indicated.

spects similar to its counterpart of Fig. 1,

except that in addition to the pocket 8, the blank is bent as shown at25 to provide above and centrally of the pocket 8 an auxiliary pocket26, the apertures 12 and 13 are located as indicated at 12 and 13, andrecesses in the top of the brush backing and underlying these apertures,such as the recesses 12 and 13 of Fig. 1, are dispensed with.

The link is permanently engaged with the apertures 12 and 13, as shown,and the parts are so designed that when the brush is arranged asillustrated in Figs. '5 and 6, the link assumes by gravity the full-lineposition shown, and when the brush is inverted, the link assumes bygravity the brokenline position indicated. Thus to mount or dismount thebrush on or from the handle, the brush is first inverted, and thesmaller loop of the bent-wire member of the handle is inserted in eitherend of the pocket 8 or withdrawn therefrom. If the brush is thus beingmounted on the handle, on rearranging the brush and handle as indicatedin Figs.

5 and 6, the link 22 drops to the full-line ber is shown tacked ornailed to the sides of the brush backing as indicated at 27.

I claim:

1. In a scrub-brush, the combination with the brush and brush backing,of a sheet metal member permanently fixed to the top of the brushbacking and bent to provide a horizontal pocket above the top of thebrush backing havmg an end opening, a bent wlre 'netal member comprlsmga central narrow looped portion for removable insertion within thepocket through said opening,

said wire member having also apair of laterally looped portions next tothe narrow looped portion and in the same plane there with, and anelongated wooden handle secured to the terminal lengths of the wiremember.

2. In a scrub-brush, the combination with the brush and brush backing,of a sheet metal member permanently fixed to the top of the brushbacking andbent to provlde a horizontal pocket above the top of thebrush backing having an endopening, a wooden handle, and a fixturecarried thereby and formed of a length of Wire bent at its central partto form a narrow loop and then bent away from the central part toincrease the width of the fixture, these'bends belng all insubstantially the same plane, the Wire member being further bent tobring its terminal lengths adjacent to each other, these terminallengths being secured to thehandle, said pocket .being just wide enoughto receive the narrow loop and such part only of the wire member.

3. A scrub-brush as described in claim 2, wherein the top Wall of thepocket is apertured above the space within the narrow loop of the wiremember when said member is inserted in the pocket, and there is provideda locking member movable to protrude through said aperture to dispose apart of the locking member wlthin the pocket to engage with the loop toprevent movement of the loop within the pocket lengthwise of the loop.

4. A scrub-brush as described in claim 3, wherein the pocket is open atopposite ends, wherein the apertures of the top wall of the pocket areequidistant from the open ends of the pocket, respectively, and whereinthe length of the narrow loop is such that the bight thereof is in thesame operative position relative to the apertured part of the pocket andthe locking member irrespective of whether the narrow loop is insertedin the pocket by way of one or the other end opening, thereby to makethe handle reversible on the brush. a j

5. A scrub -brush as described in claim 3, wherein the apertured part ofthe top wall of the pocket comprises a pair of apertures arrangedcentrally of said wall and in a line joining the open ends of thepocket, wherein the top wall of the pocket is bent to provide a ridge onthe upper side and a groove on the under side of said wall extendingalong said line, and wherein the locking member is a substantiallyrectangular link having end stretches passing through said apertures sothat the top stretch of the link always lies above the top wall of thepocket and the bottom stretch of the link may be disposed in the grooveto permit withdrawal of the loop from the pocket.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York A. D.

HENRY A. HAYDEN.

Copies 01 this. patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner oi Patents. Washington, D. 0."

